The assault weapons ban did not prevent the earlier school shooting at Columbine.

I rise today in support of Robert E. Bacharach, nominated to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit. Mr. Bacharach's nomination was pending before the Senate last year. In accordance with Senate custom and practice, the…

As we move forward, we have to discuss spending. So I am trying to promote a thoughtful conversation that focuses upon where our Federal spending most calls for containment.

A day is coming when we are going to find out who is right and who is wrong about premiums for plans sold through exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.

Do not let people get away with saying that 40 percent of our corn crop goes for ethanol...

Some of this improvement, where we did not have quite the reduction in production as we thought we would have. It, of course, is due to better practices and modern technology.

I am sorry I missed your testimony, but I had two other committee meetings this morning and I am glad to get here, because this is such an important issue, particularly, it looks like the maps I see of my State and maybe even further West…

with just one or two percent of the people producing most of the food in this country, there is not as much understanding of agriculture

Some of us think that there is going to be a real significant rate shock coming.

I rise today to talk about the farm bill and then specifically about reforming payment limits for farm programs. As one looks back to the fall of 2011 and the failure of what was referred to as the ``supercommittee,'' we saw many…

If you were told a sex offender has a job working with children and if you have the legal authority to detain him on immigration violations, why would anyone wait a month and a half before taking action?

Now, to me, this is outrageous. Will you remedy this loophole given that you wrote DACA?

I ask permission to speak as in morning business for 8 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Pennsylvania is recognized.

I believe quite strongly we should get Government out of the business of business by reducing the marginal tax rate on U.S. corporations to something in the mid-20s and to pay for that through the elimination of business tax subsidies.

I think we have seen it in the fiscal tax deal where Congress proceeded to increase marginal tax rates but also to give a lot of--to extend a lot of the tax extenders to corporate businesses.

I think it is important to emphasize that that is the law that we ought to keep track of that.

These decisions should be made by career law enforcement professionals on the merits. Law enforcement should not be driven by political agendas.

I have got email here from a group over in the Defense Department that I sent a letter with 78 questions in it, and a person in charge of that said, 'F Grassley, whether or not we are going to answer him.'

I think the academic literature is very clear. There is a strong support for evidence that shows that lower level of taxes are associated with higher level of growth, and the reverse is true.

Let me say what I think is frustrating about this whole issue of raising taxes either to spend more or to reduce the deficit, whatever the motive is, particularly in a time of such high unemployment we have now and the longest period of…

The President in 2008 ran on a platform of increasing taxes. Before he was sworn in, he made an announcement that during a time of such high unemployment--and it was not even 10 percent then; it eventually got to be 10 percent--you should…

Immigration reform is a perilous minefield of emotionally charged issues.

I take your word for it, but it is certainly a poor reflection on your tenure there if you did not know about these investments.

I yield back our time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall it pass?

I thank the Chair. (The remarks of Senator Grassley pertaining to the introduction of S. 281 are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')